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New use of a laryngectomy tube for management of mechanical ventilation in patients with anatomical abnormalities
Tsukuba, Japan
* E-mail: mizutani@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
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Editor—It is sometimes difficult to manage airways in morbidly obese patients with a thick neck using standard tracheostomy tubes. So far, only a few techniques using tracheostomy tubes or tracheal tubes to manage artificial airways have been reported.1–3 We report successful use of reinforced laryngectomy tubes (LaryngoFlex®, Willy Rusch,